On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 03:38:41PM +0100, Franck Bui-Huu wrote: > Ralf Baechle wrote: > > Back to the original topic - git describe fails even with some of the > > very old commits of the lmo tree which are known to be tagged so there > > is something wrong. > > Your issue seems different from Thomas' one. In your case: > > $ git cat-file -t refs/tags/linux-1.3.0 > commit > > So the tag you mentioned is a _lightweight_ tag. These are not > considered by git-describe by default. Ah, thanks solving that miracle. The lightweight tags were all created by the git to CVS converter two years ago. I was planning to replace those with signed tags anyway, another reason to do so. Ralf
